Admission/registration

What

Each year, kindergartens determine and announce the time and conditions for admission.

Parents, foster parents or guardians submit an enrolment application after kindergartens announce their enrolment plan for the following school year, which generally takes place in April and May.

Enrolment is open throughout the school year if there are vacancies in the kindergarten for young and preschool age children.

Good to know

More information on enrolling in a kindergarten: https://goo.gl/WGb1nG

Steps

Step 1: You submit an application before the given deadline, asking for your child to be enrolled in a certain early-childhood or pre-school education programme in the preschool institution nearest to your place of residence, or an institution running a programme you are interested in.

Children of migrants, asylees and persons under subsidiary protection are entitled to direct kindergarten enrolment. For enrolment, you need to contact the administrative department of your county, or the city office of the City of Zagreb in charge of education.

Step 2: Enrolment results with data on accepted and rejected enrolment applications and on the kindergarten’s available capacity are published within a specific time limit following the adoption of decision on enrolment results.

Step 3: You must sign an agreement on entering the kindergarten programme within one month since the publication of the admissions results, and in exceptional cases, until 1 September of the current year.

Step 4: Children who have been enrolled begin their programme on 1 September of the current year unless established otherwise. If you did not attach it with the application for kindergarten enrolment, before the programme begins, you must provide an authorised doctor’s certificate confirming the child’s general health check-up before enrolment.

Where

List of kindergartens in Croatia: https://goo.gl/gSsRPx